Book description
Finally, Helen Garner has opened her diaries and invited readers into the world behind her novels and works of non-fiction. Recorded with frankness, humour and steel-sharp wit, these accounts of her everyday life provide an intimate insight into the work of one of Australia’s greatest living writers.
Yellow Notebook, Diaries…
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The Australian writer Helen Garner has been publishing for nearly 50 years but only recently has her work taken off in the United States. I had never heard of her until a friend gave me one of Garner’s published diaries, and as I read I wondered why I had never heard of her.
It’s an absolute pleasure reading her honest, witty, intelligent take on her world and her often amusing, painful encounters with colleagues, family, and strangers. She has an exceptional eye for the small details that make life rich, the quirks and traits in other people that make them…
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